Episode Synopsis "New Reflections – How TDR’s Have Been Reinvented"

TDR’s have long been part of the core toolset that Maintenance Techs rely on to do their jobs, but they haven’t really changed much in decades until recently. In this episode, Karl Oberlin from VIAVI will explain how the different types of TDR’s work, and reflects back on the decades that he spent as a Maintenance Tech earlier in his career to explain how the differences apply to technicians in the real world today.

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